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Poobah,

Classic footage.

There's a lot of info on the inventor of the surfoplane, Ernest Smithers, in the John Ruffels on the paipo interview page.

Bob

Hello Rod, I wasn't thinking of boogie boarders in terms ofthe dragging a leg - krusher or one of the guys with a background in boogie boards might have more to say on this aspect. It would be interesting to hear if the wood boards guys here use this method much. I'll check out the footage I have to...

All, Duke’s quote has to be put into context – how many finless boards these days are turned by dragging a foot. Not too many would be my guess. Body positioning, leverage and weight distribution would be used more frequently. Yesterday, I was going pretty fast, and went over a ledge on a choppy wav...

Rod, The boards Duke was talking about were a particular type of board. Finless alaia have been ridden at Waimea. Remember all those old photoss and films with finned boards dropping out of the sky at Waimea. Its a comparison of onions and bananas. Fins are only one factor, when it comes to the issu...

How did this thread start and where's it heading; The first question is easy, Rod's statment: There seems to be a movement asserting that finless boards are every bit as capable as finned boards...I remain unconvinced"." Where this discussion is heading is more difficult to tell, but the p...

Hello CF, Poisitioning can also have a bit to do with holding a line on steep faces. Huie from Swaylocks made me a board, which tracked too much. It was based on a Greenough planshape and more like a short surfboard. I ended up getting a set of plugs put further back (which made turning way easier) ...

I struggle with foreign languages, but looks my grasp of English is also failing. Uncle G responds with a "pau" (the only pau I've heard of is a town in southern France?) and Soulglider is talking about la kukarachas (which google struggled with) to make a point I didn't get. Is this a US ...

Talking about traditional Hawaiian (or wooden?) and contemporary paipo,as Nels suggested isn't a bad way to go.

Here is the original link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbFigfXH5Yg Itago aren't going to take the world by storm, but my take on the point of John's clip is that there is an indigenous Japanese surfing culture that goes way back. In many places around the world. there is a dogma that surfing sta...

Nels, Tom had a little to say about these boards in his interview. I've never seen one in the surf, I've seen a couple in shops (including one in Ireland). I think they are primarily made to be ridden standing up. Unlce G - they are pop-outs, but I don't think they are a serious threat to an exisiit...

G'day Nels, My thinking at this point in time is that paipo is a socially constructed term and trying to come up with a hard and fast definition is nigh impossible. Paipo doesn't seem to have a long history as a word and has been reconfigured by Wally Froiseth to refer his twin finned boards, that h...

I've ridden the same board, finned and finless. Besides surfer preference, the other big variable is the wave. In a hollow wave I don't think there is much difference, however, if the wave has full sections and you want to do big cutbacks the finned boards, let you do this more radically/readily. Ti...

Several years ago on the old forum Poobah had suggested to me using a skimboard as a means to beat airline costs. I have to give it to this guy though - he must have taken some punishment to be able to now surf these waves the way he does. The need for a jet ski reduces the vaiability for most. Flip...

Scroll down for a paipo pin-up .

http://www.businesstraveller.com/news/b ... oster-book

Bob

Rod,

I think in your haste to go surfing that you copied page 426 twice.

Bob

From Surfblurb: The image is extracted from Our Islands and Their People: page 426: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005080695

Our islands and their people as seen with camera ... v.2. Olivares, José de.

Be warned - takes forever (at least for me) to open.

Here's a site which offers finned paipo - http://www.nativekneeboards.com/nativekneeboards.com/Paipo.html Info from the site: "This Paipo is made with 2 Hybrid cloths. 6oz Carbon/Basalt cloth to the deck/rails. 6oz colored F/G / carbon insert bottom. FCS Fusion plug system. I usually make my bo...

Skipp,

I look forward to more photos of your boards in action. Stalled dsign or happy where you are. I'm still on a quest.

Bob

I had a bit of time to reflect on this as I was getting hammered trying to unsuccessfully paddle out at at a solid pointbreak recently. I scrapped out on the second attempt, but it is clear a board with more float would have got me out when there were brief lulls, quicker. However, I was also please...

Uncle G,

How thick is this board with too much floation?

Bob